Major League Baseball celebrates ... star and Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson. Each year on this date, all players from all teams wear Robinson's famous No. 42 on the back of their jerseys.

The story of a stolen Jackie Robinson statue has gone viral. His legacy has emerged as a subplot. A GoFundMe page set up on behalf of the League 42, the youth baseball program in Wichita ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

(KWCH) - It has been one year since the League 42 ... of Jackie Robinson in northeast Wichita. The statue is Situated in a McAdams Park pavilion that marks the gateway to the League 42 baseball ...

Cool, calm, and collected, Jackie Robinson broke barriers with grace. MLB World Champ, 4 sport varsity at UCLA, Second Lieutenant in the Army. 42 https ... All of Baseball embarks on a year ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

There are newspaper and magazine articles, Nike commercials, a massive campaign in baseball with every ball and uniform emblazoned with a special Jackie Robinson logo, a short film by Spike Lee that ...

"Jackie Robinson ... In 1997, Major League Baseball dedicated the season to Robinson on the 50th anniversary of his debut. It also announced it would retire No. 42 on all teams.